Death Wish

Synopsis: Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by poverty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers...

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Director(s): Michael Winner

Actors: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats

Production: Paramount Pictures

1 win & 1 nomination.


IMDB:: 7.0
Metacritic:: 51
Rotten Tomatoes:: 65%

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: R
Year:: 1974
: 93 min
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Hold it right there.
Hold it again.
Come on, Paul.
One more.
- You won't show those to anyone.
- Why? You've got a prime figure.
- You really have.
- That's a euphemism for "fat."
Wanna go back to the hotel?
What's wrong with right here?
We're too civilized.
I remember when we weren't.
But we'll go back to the hotel.
I don't wanna go back home.
Passengers on TW 76
from Honolulu to New York...
... should proceed from the check-in
counter to boarding.
Wanna know what was happening
while you were living it up in Maui?
There were 15 murders the
first week and 21 last week.
That's a lot.
Decent people will have to
live elsewhere.
You mean, people who can afford to.
Christ. You're such
a bleeding-heart liberal.
For the underprivileged, yeah.
The underprivileged
are beating our brains out.
I say, stick them
in concentration camps.
- Henry.
- Hello.
I'm running cost and profit on the
Jainchill development in Arizona.
Based on the figures, I don't see how
Blueridge can underwrite 50 percent.
Jainchill has been very successful
in a small way.
I suggest you send a man down from our
San Francisco office to step it out...
...redesign it if necessary.
Because that's a high risk
for the acreage involved.
I'll talk to Ing about it.
Thanks, Paul.
Oh, how does it feel to be back
in the war zone after Hawaii?
Good until I ran into Sam and he
delivered the crime rates statistics.
We need more cops than people.
You'll have to find other options.
No one could pay the taxes.
$2.17.
Would you have these delivered, Mary?
Hey, I'm gonna do a thing.
- Shit, man, got business.
- Let's go, man.
I'll get it.
Who is it?
Groceries, ma'am.
Nobody gets hurt. Don't move.
- What do you want?
- You know what we want.
- You won't hurt us?
- Not if you got money.
Nobody, nobody.
Look at the artiste doing his art.
Ain't that beautiful?
- My purse is in the kitchen.
- Stand still.
We'll do as they say, Carol.
Where's your purse?
You only got 4 bucks.
I got 3 and 2 bits.
You gonna get the shit
kicked out of you.
- It's all we have.
- Rich people like you? We want money!
It's true! That's all we have!
- Wanna get f*cked?
- No!
I'm gonna stab you in the ass.
Leave her alone!
Goddamn rich cunt!
I kill rich cunts!
Mother's getting the shit
kicked out of her.
Let's screw this one.
- No, man. Let's travel.
- No, man, let me paint her ass.
I'll show you how to paint.
I'm gonna pee into her mouth.
Pee into her mouth.
I hope she likes my paintbrush.
Swallow all that pink, honey.
Open her goddamn mouth!
Eat it, bitch!
I'm gonna bust her mouth!
Mother's going for the phone!
Shit! Let's split.
Will you get my wife
on the phone, please?
Mr. Kersey's office.
- Is it my wife?
- No, sir, it's your son-in-law.
Hello, Jack.
Dad. Dad, we got trouble.
You and Carol?
Don't tell me about it.
No...
...it's Mom and Carol. They're taking
them to emergency receiving.
- What the hell for?
- I don't know.
The police just called.
- What's happening?
- I don't know any more.
I'm going to the hospital.
Meet me there.
- How are they?
- I don't know, I just got here.
You know anything?
Were they cut, stabbed, what?
No, sir. Just beat up.
This is Officer Joe Charles.
He came in the ambulance.
- They gonna be all right?
- I told him all I know.
If there's anything I can do,
ask for me at the 21st Precinct.
Come on, Dad.
What did they tell you?
- Not much.
- Well, what?
- They beat them both up.
- Who did? Why?
Take it easy.
I'm just as rattled as you.
The officer said
Carol wasn't making sense.
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